According to this calculator the crater would be about 9 kilometers in diameter, it would cause a 7.1 strong earthquake and a 44 m/s shockwave a hundred kilometers from the epicentre. (Assuming 90 degree collision angle and iron composition - basically, the worst.)
Note that this assumes 4940 megatons in kinetic energy, and Nasa says it's "only" 1600.
According to this calculator the crater would be about 9 kilometers in diameter, It would cause a 7.1 strong earthquake and a 44 m/s shockwave a hundred kilometers from the epicentre. (Assuming 90 degree collision angle and iron composition - basically, the worst.)
Note that this assumes 4940 megatons in kinetic energy, and Nasa says it's "only" 1600.
I am used to junk in my mailbox, I get about 200 spam per day.
This thing, however, is unbeliavable. I get about 300 of them per hour. Granted, I have a bunch of email addresses all over the web, so I'm a prime target.
Funny thing is that when the flood started, our network admin glanced at the thousand or so specimens and said that since they all seem to originate from 10 to 20 infected computers, he'd simply block these on the mail server. Five minutes later the emails stopped. He wasn't finished patting himself on the back when a trickle started again, and 20 minutes after that it was worse than ever.
My spamfilter has quickly learnt to filter this crap but I now I also have to deal with the whiplash: my email addresses are also used as spoofed senders, so I am getting a ton of helpful "message undeliverable", "you might be infected with a virus", "message rejected due to virus" emails from all over the Internet.
You would have thought people have learnt by now not to open these f*king attachments.
I have three issues with this, apart from siding with the obvious "modchipping for all" stance, which is being voiced by everyone here.
1. They should have kept the old design if all they can come up with is the Times font on a blue background. Seriously, I thought isonews was 0wn3d and the kiddiez had a sense of humor for a change.
2. They seem to be infringing on the copyright of whoever created the IsoNews logo. Unless Krazy8 had the rights to it and signed it over to shave off a hour or two from his sentence.
3. Finally, they say that:
"The Iso News" is now the property of the United States Government.
Well, that's not true either. I just checked, and you can register "theisonews.com".
Seriously, what the hell do they think they are doing? In a month from now, Isonews will be back up at a new DNS name and back in busines with 2x the traffic thanks to all the press they get now. Isonews was not doing anything illegal, apart from selling modchips - but the illegality of that is quite questionable outside the Land of The Free (TM).
That's why there's meta-moderation. Supposedly. I can't get it working, it says i'm not eligible, but it should be there.
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Imagine packing your shopping cart at the supermarket and simply pushing the cart up to the checkout counter, where the RFID tags would be read automatically. You pay, possibly to a machine, and you leave! No more messing around with long queues, barcode readers, etc.
I'd love to see this happen.
I'd also love to see these RFID tags deactivated as soon as I leave the store. There's really no need for my things broadcasting their possibly unique IDs in the air for anybody to read.
Not all businesspeople think like that. Erm, maybe no businessperson thinks like that.
What you say might have been true. Traditionally.
Google might be profitable, and an owner could rake in, say, $1m per year - but that's not going to get him a 200-foot yacht.
If you take the company public, you can easily and instantly sell some or all of your shares on the market, then retire early with hundreds of millions in the bank.
That's the #1 reason people do IPOs, and that's the reason Google will go public once the US economy is in better shape.
Because Overture's ~$900m market cap comes nowhere near the sum you'd need to pay for Google.
Besides, Google being a private company, the owners can decide whether or not to sell - and they aren't selling. They are most likely waiting for a better economic climate to do their IPO.
I wholly own my company so it only has one share, and we're succesful so our EPS is several thousand times that of Microsoft. Does contain any information about our market cap? Nope.
In related news, Overture is at their 52-week low today, directly as a result of their shopping spree.
Investors feel that while buying one search engine might have made sense (Overture actually lost out on a number of large deals last year because they weren't able to provide algorithmic searches) but buying two is overkill. It does not serve the purpose of the first acquisition - namely to complete their product palette.
Just like many recently released over-hyped nth sequel crap.
I saw it while peering over the shoulder of somebody I don't know but they say he's a warez guy.
It plays sort of like the original, true - but it has numerous faults.
System requirements are insane, and it does not look it. I mean, do you really need 2x the horsepower to reproduce Warcraft 3 & AoM's visuals?
The "story" (or since there's no story to speak of, the "setting") looks like a certain Texan's wet dream.
Units and sides are stereotypical and completely lack imagination. I mean, the arabs have a suicide bomber unit! Wow, who came up with THAT idea? Give him a medal.
Is it supposed to be fun to drive my shiny US tanks into a desert town after having the game take out all their defenses automatically with a number of combat helicopters and send the civilians flee in terror (oops there's that word in a weird context) while taking no casualties - not even shot at?
If this dud makes or breaks the C&C franchise, well, I have bad news.
McAfee bought SpamKiller a number of months back. I actually paid for that thing back when it was just a shareware project. Big money came in, updates stopped...
Now they buy SpamAssassin, great! I actually used it after getting rid of SpamKiller, and it was OK-ish, but it bothered the hell out of me that I had no control over what's spam and what's not, except for a sender black- and whitelist. (Which sometimes does not work for mailing lists, some of the ones I'm on have date-specific senders such as blahblah-digest-20021220@blahblah.com.)
I switched to POPFile like two months ago, and never looked back. 97.8% accuracy and increasing, yay!
... payphones are great to have in an emergency - and there are tens of millions of people in the US w/o a cellphone.
The real question is: are they going to keep operating those phones that lose them money? Should payphones be thought of as something essential like public transportation, and possibly subsidized by the govt?
Exult uses a totally different approach - it is a rewrite of the game engine. The memory manager & hack in this case is a much more generic piece of software that could be adapted to other old software that does not run under emulated DOS sessions anymore.
I have a 3ware Escalade 7500-8 in my home server with 6x120G drives in RAID-5.
Cabling was sort of messy (but only because it's a plain big tower case and not a double-wide fileserver thing) but other than that I plugged it in and it worked. I have two 3ware hot-swap RAID enclosures that allowed me to install the six drives in four 5"1/4 bays - they're great, and extremely well-built, albeit a tad on the expensive side for just some cleverly twisted metal. (ie no electronics) And hot swap is great. Pull a drive out while the computer's on and the alarm goes off, put it back, and it'll shut up. An awesome toy.
Performance is more than enough for me, I just use it for archival puproses.
Two things I dislike about the card:
1. Array builds can only happen in the BIOS. If you create a new, really big array you can be prepared to spend a couple of hours staring at the screen.
2. Linux software support is too good. Matter of fact, better than Windows support. This is a bummer because I run W2K on the box.
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According to this calculator the crater would be about 9 kilometers in diameter, it would cause a 7.1 strong earthquake and a 44 m/s shockwave a hundred kilometers from the epicentre. (Assuming 90 degree collision angle and iron composition - basically, the worst.)
Note that this assumes 4940 megatons in kinetic energy, and Nasa says it's "only" 1600.
According to this calculator the crater would be about 9 kilometers in diameter, It would cause a 7.1 strong earthquake and a 44 m/s shockwave a hundred kilometers from the epicentre. (Assuming 90 degree collision angle and iron composition - basically, the worst.)
Note that this assumes 4940 megatons in kinetic energy, and Nasa says it's "only" 1600.
And this was modded Interesting???
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicalscience/story/
In 2001 the same comission fined Hoffman-La Roche (Swiss) for 462m, and BASF (German) to the extent of 296m, for vitamin price fixing.
You may go back to your freedom fries now.
PS: One can only hope that an appeal will not be granted. It does not have to be, you know.
I am used to junk in my mailbox, I get about 200 spam per day.
This thing, however, is unbeliavable. I get about 300 of them per hour. Granted, I have a bunch of email addresses all over the web, so I'm a prime target.
Funny thing is that when the flood started, our network admin glanced at the thousand or so specimens and said that since they all seem to originate from 10 to 20 infected computers, he'd simply block these on the mail server. Five minutes later the emails stopped. He wasn't finished patting himself on the back when a trickle started again, and 20 minutes after that it was worse than ever.
My spamfilter has quickly learnt to filter this crap but I now I also have to deal with the whiplash: my email addresses are also used as spoofed senders, so I am getting a ton of helpful "message undeliverable", "you might be infected with a virus", "message rejected due to virus" emails from all over the Internet.
You would have thought people have learnt by now not to open these f*king attachments.
Oh, hang on, I get it.
1. Go to the Moon.
2. ???
3. Profit!
After all, it worked for the US.
I have three issues with this, apart from siding with the obvious "modchipping for all" stance, which is being voiced by everyone here.
1. They should have kept the old design if all they can come up with is the Times font on a blue background. Seriously, I thought isonews was 0wn3d and the kiddiez had a sense of humor for a change.
2. They seem to be infringing on the copyright of whoever created the IsoNews logo. Unless Krazy8 had the rights to it and signed it over to shave off a hour or two from his sentence.
3. Finally, they say that:
"The Iso News" is now the property of the United States Government.
Well, that's not true either. I just checked, and you can register "theisonews.com".
Seriously, what the hell do they think they are doing? In a month from now, Isonews will be back up at a new DNS name and back in busines with 2x the traffic thanks to all the press they get now. Isonews was not doing anything illegal, apart from selling modchips - but the illegality of that is quite questionable outside the Land of The Free (TM).
Well, Direct3D they might be not, but DirectX they are.
You know, DirectSound, DirectInput, that sort of stuff.
Just because they're programming for OpenGL does not mean that they do not use any of the DirectX (hmm, I wonder what the X stands for) APIs.
How much Karma do you get for showing up?
That's why there's meta-moderation. Supposedly. I can't get it working, it says i'm not eligible, but it should be there.
Imagine packing your shopping cart at the supermarket and simply pushing the cart up to the checkout counter, where the RFID tags would be read automatically. You pay, possibly to a machine, and you leave! No more messing around with long queues, barcode readers, etc.
I'd love to see this happen.
I'd also love to see these RFID tags deactivated as soon as I leave the store. There's really no need for my things broadcasting their possibly unique IDs in the air for anybody to read.
Not all businesspeople think like that. Erm, maybe no businessperson thinks like that.
What you say might have been true. Traditionally.
Google might be profitable, and an owner could rake in, say, $1m per year - but that's not going to get him a 200-foot yacht.
If you take the company public, you can easily and instantly sell some or all of your shares on the market, then retire early with hundreds of millions in the bank.
That's the #1 reason people do IPOs, and that's the reason Google will go public once the US economy is in better shape.
Because Overture's ~$900m market cap comes nowhere near the sum you'd need to pay for Google.
Besides, Google being a private company, the owners can decide whether or not to sell - and they aren't selling. They are most likely waiting for a better economic climate to do their IPO.
Earnings per share alone does not mean anything.
I wholly own my company so it only has one share, and we're succesful so our EPS is several thousand times that of Microsoft. Does contain any information about our market cap? Nope.
In related news, Overture is at their 52-week low today, directly as a result of their shopping spree.
Investors feel that while buying one search engine might have made sense (Overture actually lost out on a number of large deals last year because they weren't able to provide algorithmic searches) but buying two is overkill. It does not serve the purpose of the first acquisition - namely to complete their product palette.
You forgot about the best Park Distance Control system ever devised. The iDrive screen actually shows what the ultrasonic sensors "see".
Headrests automatically align themselves to the estimated (by weight) height of the person occupying the back seat.
In rain, miniscule amount of brake pressure is applied automatically from time to time to keep the brake discs dry.
Also, while the car has every extra you can wish for, the dashboard has fewer buttons and knobs than a 15-year-old Civic.
Man, I do love that car.
But maybe the nerds at IEEE just hate seeing a car with a Start button.
Just like many recently released over-hyped nth sequel crap.
I saw it while peering over the shoulder of somebody I don't know but they say he's a warez guy.
It plays sort of like the original, true - but it has numerous faults.
System requirements are insane, and it does not look it. I mean, do you really need 2x the horsepower to reproduce Warcraft 3 & AoM's visuals?
The "story" (or since there's no story to speak of, the "setting") looks like a certain Texan's wet dream.
Units and sides are stereotypical and completely lack imagination. I mean, the arabs have a suicide bomber unit! Wow, who came up with THAT idea? Give him a medal.
Is it supposed to be fun to drive my shiny US tanks into a desert town after having the game take out all their defenses automatically with a number of combat helicopters and send the civilians flee in terror (oops there's that word in a weird context) while taking no casualties - not even shot at?
If this dud makes or breaks the C&C franchise, well, I have bad news.
...oh wait, it crashes. Better limit it at 10x speed.
all this inferior technology?
McAfee bought SpamKiller a number of months back. I actually paid for that thing back when it was just a shareware project. Big money came in, updates stopped...
Now they buy SpamAssassin, great! I actually used it after getting rid of SpamKiller, and it was OK-ish, but it bothered the hell out of me that I had no control over what's spam and what's not, except for a sender black- and whitelist. (Which sometimes does not work for mailing lists, some of the ones I'm on have date-specific senders such as blahblah-digest-20021220@blahblah.com.)
I switched to POPFile like two months ago, and never looked back. 97.8% accuracy and increasing, yay!
... payphones are great to have in an emergency - and there are tens of millions of people in the US w/o a cellphone.
The real question is: are they going to keep operating those phones that lose them money? Should payphones be thought of as something essential like public transportation, and possibly subsidized by the govt?
Sh*t man, sorry. I should have checked before I flamed you. Of course, "Portequese" is, surprise, Portugese for Portugese.
Sorry man, I'm a dumbass.
"I speak English,Spanish, Portequese, and a smattering of french. Born and bred in the US."
And where did you learn "Poertquese"? In Poerteuqal?
There IS a country next to Spain called Portugal where they speak Portugese. Is that what you were referring to?
Exult uses a totally different approach - it is a rewrite of the game engine. The memory manager & hack in this case is a much more generic piece of software that could be adapted to other old software that does not run under emulated DOS sessions anymore.
he really was Polish. Apparently the English version of Solaris was translated from a French translation of the original Polish novel.
http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/solaris.html
he was Polish.
So, who on earth makes 250GB drives? Last I heard the largest you could get was 200GB.
I have a 3ware Escalade 7500-8 in my home server with 6x120G drives in RAID-5.
Cabling was sort of messy (but only because it's a plain big tower case and not a double-wide fileserver thing) but other than that I plugged it in and it worked. I have two 3ware hot-swap RAID enclosures that allowed me to install the six drives in four 5"1/4 bays - they're great, and extremely well-built, albeit a tad on the expensive side for just some cleverly twisted metal. (ie no electronics) And hot swap is great. Pull a drive out while the computer's on and the alarm goes off, put it back, and it'll shut up. An awesome toy.
Performance is more than enough for me, I just use it for archival puproses.
Two things I dislike about the card:
1. Array builds can only happen in the BIOS. If you create a new, really big array you can be prepared to spend a couple of hours staring at the screen.
2. Linux software support is too good. Matter of fact, better than Windows support. This is a bummer because I run W2K on the box.